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Obama Went Off Script To Address Gay Grads Directly At Morehouse College — A slight change in the language, but a significant change in meaning. Instead of a veiled reference to same-sex couples, Obama made the language direct. — Via: Jason Reed / Reuters
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The White House's shifting IRS account — The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago.
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Senior W.H. staff knew of IRS investigation, did not tell Obama — Senior White House staff knew of the ongoing investigation into the IRS's targeting of conservative groups ahead of the release of a report from a Treasury Department inspector general, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday …
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White House Says It Didn't Loop Obama In on I.R.S. Inquiry
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As GOP weighs how best to profit from Obama's problems, Democrats hope it overplays its hand
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Obama's newest ally: John McCain
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The Impeachment Option — Representative Jason Chaffetz …
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5 Ways Obama Can Restore the Public's Trust and Rescue His Presidency
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Obama's Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago
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LIVE UPDATES: Crews switch to recovery at Plaza Towers elementary — Live updates from the 4Warn Storm Team on severe weather, tornadoes and damage. — B. White — Facilities opening up their doors for storm-displaced residents: — University of Oklahoma - student housing (Norman)
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Vast Oklahoma Tornado Kills at Least 51 — MOORE, Okla. — A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed more than four dozen people as it tore through this Oklahoma City suburb Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools packed with children.
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Coburn Wants Tornado Disaster Aid to Be Offset — The tornado damage near Oklahoma City is still being assessed and the death toll is expected to rise, but already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.
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Oklahoma City tornado: Get the latest developments in this disaster
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Children pulled from rubble at Oklahoma school flattened by tornado
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‘500K square miles under gun’
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Secret Service Looking Into Radio Host's Graphic Violent Comments About Obama, Hillary Clinton — The Secret Service is following up on recent comments by right wing radio host Pete Santilli, who claimed to want to shoot former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the vagina and see President Obama tried and shot for treason.
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Hillary '16 Campaign Off to Excellent Start — Breaking news: according to a report in today's Washington Post, Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency in 2016 have increased by approximately a zillion percent, due to the fact that her former chief strategist Mark Penn …
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Clintons to stay out of N.Y.C. race — Bill and Hillary Clinton are making clear they are staying out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, just as the race is about to be roiled by the candidacy of their close aide Huma Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner.


Apple's Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds — WASHINGTON— Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and surprised experts …
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Judge ruled feds need not notify Fox reporter of search — A federal judge in Washington ruled in 2010 that the Justice Department was not required by law to notify Fox reporter James Rosen that prosecutors had obtained his emails in connection with an investigation into a leak about North Korean plans to test a nuclear weapon.
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The D.O.J. Versus James Rosen
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Fox News: ‘We Will Unequivocally Defend’ Rosen Against ‘Chilling’ DOJ Investigation
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Exclusive: Hillary's Benghazi ‘Scapegoat’ Speaks Out — Raymond Maxwell, the only official at the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to lose his job after the attacks, tells Josh Rogin that he's been scapegoated by Hillary Clinton's team. — Following the attack in Benghazi …
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IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC — Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds …
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A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS's Lois Lerner
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How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America — “Convenient race-talk” from a president who ought to know better — The first lady went to Bowie State and addressed the graduating class. Her speech was a mix of black history and a salute to the graduates. There was also this:
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How to Legalize Pot — THE first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at U.C.L.A., was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small amounts.
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On Yahoo-Tumblr — It now looks pretty certain that Yahoo has pulled off a deal to buy Tumblr for 1.1B. The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook …
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7 Juicy Claims From A Romney Campaign Insider's New Book — Former policy aide Gabriel Schoenfeld's new book, A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account , blames Romney's staff for his defeat. Romney aides have dismissed the account , saying Schoenfeld was not as high …
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